Fast Food, Fast Fashion and Fast Web?

paroledavendere
4 min readApr 2, 2024

It’s curious how few still inquire about the environmental impact of superficial and unoptimized website development.

In an era marked by hyper-correct sensitivity and a growing woke culture, with a heightened awareness of consciousness, it’s striking how these crucial messages are mainly communicated through sites that have a considerable environmental impact.

Think about how many sites are circulating on the world wide web: as we write, there are a whopping 1,086,916,398, of which only 18% are active, the rest are dormant.

https://siteefy.com/how-many-websites-are-there/#How-Many-Websites-Are-There

So much energy is being dissipated to keep all this stuff running!

But waste in certain cases could be contained, a few adjustments would suffice. Starting with the code used to develop a website: the cleaner it is, the more sustainable it is, because it consumes less energy to defend its security and because it “glides” through the network more quickly.

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